THE IGBO LANDING STORY OF 1803

The "Igbo Landing" story of 1803

In May 1803, around 75 Igbo slaves who were being transported by sea revolted by capsizing their ship and drowned themselves while singing in Igbo, a song that translates to ...

"the water spirit brought us. The water spirit will take us home". (Mmụọ mmiri du anyi bịa, mmụọ mmiri ga-edu anyi laa).

Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved...

people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast. In May 1803, the Igbo and other West African captives arrived in Savannah Georgia, on the slave ship, the Wanderer. They were purchased for an average of $100 each by slave merchants...

John Couper and Thomas Spalding for forced labor on their plantations in Simons Island. The chained slaves were packed under deck of a coastal vessel, the York, which would take them to St. Simons Island. During the voyage, around 75 Igbo slaves rose in rebellion, took control...

of the ship, drowned their captors, and in the process caused the grounding of the ship in Dunbar Creek. They thereby accepted the protection of their god (Chiukwu) & death over the alternative of enslavement.

The sequence of actual events is unclear, as most of the historical...

incidence was passed down by oral tradition.

A common version credited to Roswell King, a white overseer on the nearby Pierce Butler plantation is that the slaves, once ashore, walked into the creek is unison, singing and chanting in Igbo under the leadership of someone who...

seemed to be like a high priest among them.

This mutiny has been referred to in some quarters as the first major freedom march in America's history.

The event has recently been incorporated into the history of coastal Georgia schools in America.

Beyonce Knowles have also depicted and paid homage to the Igbo Landing in her work "Love Drought". Blank Panther movie refers to this event. Etc

Comments

ADELABU HABEEB ADEOLA

ADELABU HABEEB ADEOLA The journey started with the dream of becoming a disc jokey on the streets of Agege , a suburb in Lagos Nigeria. Then was the inquisition of becoming the man behind the multi channeled console also known as AUDIO MIXER. This was in 2002. The movement continued at a media agency called ATSOM media owned by the famous Ambrose Olutayo Somide currently the General Manager of Ray Power FM Nigeria. After becoming a trained sound engineer, I proceeded in working with Akin Akindele , an independent Radio Presenter whom I became his inhouse producer between 2006 and 2013. RADIO PRODUCTION IN PROGRESS In the course of working with Akin Akindele's Desk, I produced programs like 1. Suppy Mystery Shoppers - A creative program that goes into the open markets, scouts for random buyers of Suppy (a seasoning cube), reward them and bring them back ...

LOVE TRIANGLE

Kunle loves Amaka but Amaka love Taiwo Taiwo , instead of loving Amaka back was fantasizing about Hassana the daughter of our Imam Hassana vowed that her type of man is not that of Taiwo so she went for Ken Ken , a Yahoo Boy said he can't be with a daughter of a cleric because of his ways hence he settled for Cynthia Cynthia who has been on a trip to Dubai twice said she can't date a Yahoo Boy since her " sugar zaddy " was ready to sponsor her next trip to Maldives. Cynthia only love his money not him so she "kukuma" settled for Ben her kinsman hoping that Ben will one day propose to her after she might have left " zaddy " Ben , smart boy, said he will never marry an "achawo geh" so he was just taking Cynthia's money and spending on Amaka who is in love with Taiwo that is in love with Hassana who is in love Ken who is in love with Cynthia that is in love with Zaddy's money and Ben who spends for Am...

The history of 419 in Nigeria

Well, even in foreign countries, fingers are easily pointed at Nigerians because the outside world believe we are "419ers" Did you know that the first exponent of 419 in Nigeria was not a Nigerian? "On 18 December 1920, a certain Mr. Crentsil, a former employee of the Marine Department of the colonial government in Lagos, wrote an extraordinary letter to a contact in the British colony of the Gold Coast, today's Ghana.... It is ironic that the first known Four One Nine fraudster known to history was not a Nigerian at all, but rather a Ghanaian. Crentsil seems to have written a number of similar letters, each time offering to provide magical services on payment of a fee. In December 1921, he was charged by the police with three counts under various sections of the criminal code including section 419... But Crentsil was in luck; the magistrate presiding over his case discharged him with caution on the first count and acquitted him on the two others for la...

zehola

Search This Blog